BOOK TICKETS FOR GROUP TOURS OF THE VATICAN, ROME - ST. PETERS, THE VATICAN MUSEUMS, THE SISTINE CHAPEL

In an attempt to minimise the number of 'sorry, fully booked' messages that we have to send out in response to Vatican tour requests, tickitaly.com are able to offer guaranteed reservation* an a select number of Vatican guided tours (three hour duration). We currently have pre-booked availability on the following dates (select a date from the drop-down boxes to begin the booking procedure, see further down the page for details on the tour itself):

PLEASE NOTE: Recent years have seen an incredible surge in bookings for the Vatican, and a less-than-perfectly-organised administration has seen some small amount of queueing necessary in peak season, even for pre-booked tours such as ours. There is simply nothing that can be done about this, but please click here for a page explaining how to maximise your chances of avoiding such a queue. Again, this affects everyone, and if you find someone claiming to be able to bypass this, then they're being disingenuous, to put it mildly.

2008 UPDATE: Another year, and still there are issues. In the past we used to recommend booking tours in the morning - not so now. Several enormous tour operators have begun to block-book the early morning tours, and are being allowed to do so; consequently, the Vatican has started to shunt forward other early morning tours, sometimes by one or two hours. They don't always do this, but if they do they'll do so with total disregard to previously booked dates. Should this occur, and should it affect one of our bookings, we will give notice, via email, at least 15-20 days before the tour date.
We are therefore now advising that you try to opt for afternoon tours, where there is less chance of timings being shifted. Note we said less chance - the Vatican does what the Vatican wants, and there can be no absolute guarantees. Please also note that we would recommend avoiding Saturday if at all possible - some level of queueing seems inevitable if the first few months of 2008 are anything to go by.

VATICAN AND ST. PETERS TOUR - WHAT YOU'LL SEE

This three hour tour takes in the Vatican Museums, the Galleria dei Candelabri, Galleria degli Arazzi and the Galleria delle Carte Geografiche, the Sistine Chapel and the Basilica of St. Peters. Clients may also request a visit to the Tombe dei Papi.
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HOW YOU'LL GET YOUR TICKETS:

To reserve tickets for a Vatican Tour, just fill out the booking form, supply us with credit card details, and we'll do the rest. There will be no charge whatsoever until we confirm your reservation. Please note that as this is a group tour, our standard 'log in and print out your voucher' system does not apply - in this case your voucher will be sent directly via email once the tour has been confirmed.

* These tours offer guaranteed availability in that tickitaly.com have pre-booked these tickets. We will remove tours from sale once availability is exhausted, but it is possible that we'll receive double orders on the last few remaining tickets - such is the nature of shopping cart systems. Should this happen (and that's very unlikely) we will contact you within 12 hours.
These tours also require a minimum of 10 people in order to go ahead. In the unlikely scenario that Tickitaly have not 'signed up' at least 10 people for a particular tour we will let you know two weeks prior to the scheduled tour date and a refund will be issued if we cannot sort out an alternative date.